Word: habsburg
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...King, Queen and Princess were greeted by that blackest of blacks, Zita, widow of His Apostolic Majesty the late Emperor Karl of Austria-Hungary who reigned for two years as successor to Franz Josef, died deposed and broken-hearted at Funchal, Madeira. Last week Zita's well-trained Habsburg retainers did meticulous royal honors to the sovereigns of Italy, who behaved in every way as if their hostess were still an Em press. Getting down to brass tacks with royal directness, they proceeded to dicker, with Princess Maria sitting in, over whether Maria should marry Zita's handsome eldest...
Only last year Il Popolo d' Italia, personal newsorgan of Benito Mussolini, scoffed at Otto as "a thick-headed young Habsburg who could not possibly under stand Fascism." But that was last year. Since then Otto has applied himself to a diligent study of Il Duce's "Corporative State," become glib in its specialized argot. Also the assassination of Chancellor Dollfuss reminded Il Duce of the advantage of a Crown held by such a prolific dynasty as the Habsburgs...
...Emperor" at the first opportunity. Sympathizing with Otto but anxious lest Belgium vex the Great Powers, King Leopold ordered every Belgian airfield watched. Officially the Belgian Government informed Zita's Court that she and her son are free to go, but only publicly. For years France bitterly opposed a Habsburg restoration in Vienna but Naziphobia among Frenchmen was rapidly bettering "Emperor" Otto's chances. Empress Zita. who never misses a trick, was among the first to send open condolences to bereaved Widow Dollfuss: "As a fellow sufferer with you and your children...
...house of Habsburg-Lorraine last fortnight sent a stalking horse back into the Austrian Republic which had banned all Habsburg-Lorraines who had not renounced their claims to the throne. A tall, white-chinned man of 71 with the Habsburg horse face, he stepped off the train from Switzerland at Vienna's West Station and looked into the faces of a notable company: the Minister of War. Prince Alois von Schonburg-Hartenstein (''Our venerated and beloved Field Marshal!"); the son of Archduke Franz Ferdinand whose assassination detonated the War; the heads of the great houses of Mens...
...parade. There marched Chancellor Dollfuss. Vice Chancellor Prince von Starhemberg. Minister of Public Security Emil Fey. And behind them came old Eugen. tall and deliberate, the ceremonial robes of a Grand Master of the Teutonic Order swinging about his calves. A shout eddied along beside him: "Eugen! Eugen!" The Habsburg knew Vienna liked...